Synergistic Growth Inhibitory Effect of Deracoxib with Doxorubicin Against a Canine Mammary Tumor Cell Line, CMT-U27

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Synergistic Growth Inhibitory Effect of Deracoxib with Doxorubicin Against a Canine Mammary Tumor Cell Line, CMT-U27 FULL PAPER Pharmacology Synergistic growth inhibitory effect of deracoxib with doxorubicin against a canine mammary tumor cell line, CMT-U27 Tülay BAKIREL1)*, Fulya Üstün ALKAN1), Oya ÜSTÜNER1), Suzan ÇINAR2), Funda YILDIRIM3), Gaye ERTEN2) and Utku BAKIREL4) 1)Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, 34320, Turkey 2)Department of Immunology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, 34093, Turkey 3)Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, 34320, Turkey 4)Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, 34320, Turkey (Received 2 July 2015/Accepted 13 December 2015/Published online in J-STAGE 29 January 2016) ABSTRACT. Cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors have been shown to exert anti-angiogenic and anti-tumor activities on many types of ma- lignant tumors. These anticancer properties make it worthwhile to examine the possible benefit of combining COX inhibitors with other anti-cancer agents. In the present study, we evaluated the potential of deracoxib (DER) in potentiating antitumor activity of doxorubicin (DOX) in canine mammary carcinoma cells (CMT-U27). DER (50–250 µM) enhanced the antiproliferative activity of DOX by reducing the IC50 (approximately 3- to 3.5 fold). Interaction analysis of the data showed that combinations of DOX at 0.9 µM with DER (100–250 µM) produced synergism in the CMT-U27 cell line, with a ratio index ranging from 1.98 to 2.33. In additional studies identifying the mechanism of observed synergistic effect, we found that DER strongly potentiated DOX-caused G0/G1 arrest in cell cycle progression. Also, DER (100–250 µM) augmented apoptosis induction with approximately 1.35- and 1.37- fold increases in apoptotic response caused by DOX in the cells. DER enhanced the antiproliferative effect of DOX in conjunction with induction of apoptosis by modulation of Bcl-2 expression and changes in the cell cycle of the CMT-U27 cell line. Although the exact molecular mechanism of the alterations in the cell cycle and apoptosis observed with DER and DOX combinations require further investigations, the results suggest that the synergistic effect of DOX and DER combinations in CMT therapy may be achieved at relatively lower doses of DOX with lesser side effects. Therefore, combining DER with DOX may prove beneficial in the clinical treatment of canine mammary cancer. KEY WORDS: apoptosis, canine mammary tumor, cell cycle, deracoxib, doxorubicin doi: 10.1292/jvms.15-0387; J. Vet. Med. Sci. 78(4): 657–668, 2016 Canine mammary tumors (CMTs) are the most common (DOX), either alone or in combination with other drugs, is a neoplasms occurring in female dogs, with a prevalence of widely used anti-cancer agent for the therapy of these tumors 0.2% [23, 27]. Histologically, approximately 50–71% of in veterinary practice [33, 66]. It is known that failure of che- these neoplasms are considered malignant, and distant me- motherapy with this agent as a result of development of re- tastases are common causes of death in cancer patients [67]. sistance and dose-limiting toxicity is a major problem in the Despite their importance and high incidence, their molecular clinical management of the neoplasms [39, 62]. Therefore, mechanisms have not been completely defined, and effec- alternative strategies that increase the therapeutic efficacy tive therapeutic options are scarce [26, 43]. The preferred and minimize the systemic toxicity of the chemotherapeutic therapy for CMT is surgical intervention with the intention agent against mammary tumors in dogs are needed. of tumor extirpation, but it alone yields unsatisfactory results Numerous experimental, epidemiological and clini- in dogs with malignant mammary tumor, because scattered cal studies indicate that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory tumor cells and metastases cannot be eliminated [19, 59, 64]. drugs (NSAIDs), particularly the selective cyclooxygenase At present, the use of anticancer drugs to combat the mi- (COX)-2 inhibitors, have chemotherapeutic and chemo- crometastatic disease is a reasonable consideration, but there prophylactic potentials in several different types of cancer, are no agents currently approved for the treatment of malig- including breast carcinoma. Antitumorigenic and chemo- nant mammary tumors in dogs. Many of the chemotherapy therapeutic effects of these inhibitors have been attributed protocols used in veterinary medicine have been co-opted to both COX-dependent and COX-independent mechanisms from protocols used to treat human patients [41, 60]. Among relating to induction of cell apoptosis and inhibition of an- the several types of chemotherapeutic drugs, doxorubicin giogenesis and cell invasion/migration [4, 6, 20, 42, 49, 57]. Also, numerous investigators have explored the therapeutic benefit of combining selective COX-2 inhibitors with che- *CORRESPONDENCE TO: BAKIREL, T., Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Istanbul Univer- motherapeutics and have shown that the COX-2 inhibitors sity, 34320, Istanbul, Turkey. e-mail: [email protected] are able to enhance the effects of certain cytostatic agents, ©2016 The Japanese Society of Veterinary Science such as doxorubicin, irinotecan and 5-fluorouracil in vari- This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative ous human carcinoma cell lines and in a xenograft animal Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) model [6, 22, 61, 69]. Currently, a number of phase I-III License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/>. clinical trials are still investigating the efficacy of selective 658 T. BAKIREL ET AL. COX-2 inhibitors as single agents or in combination with a humidified atmosphere at 37°C under 5% CO2 and 95% air chemotherapy in cancer therapy [16, 50]. In veterinary to allow cell adhesion. After 24 hr incubation, the medium medicine, data from experimental and clinic studies exist on was removed, and cells were treated with various concentra- the efficacy of selective COX-2 inhibitors (firocoxib, dera- tions of DOX (0.1, 1, 10, 50 and 100 µM) and DER (50, 100 coxib) against CMT [2, 46], but to our knowledge there is no and 250 µM) for 72 hr. The concentrations for DOX were published report demonstrating synergistic cytotoxic effects chosen on the basis of previous reports about the effects of on canine mammary carcinoma cells elicited by anticancer this drug on the in vitro viability of canine mammary tumor agents in combination with these drugs. If synergistic effects cells [39]. DER concentrations were selected according to could be achieved by combining selective COX-2 inhibitors our previous study [2]. Cell viability, based on mitochondrial with anticancer agents for CMTs, as well as in some types dehydrogenase activity, was determined by colorimetric of human cancer [6, 17, 25, 47], they could reduce the doses assay using a MTT Cell Proliferation Kit (Roche Applied of anticancer drugs needed and thus occurrence of compli- Science, Mannheim, Germany) in accordance with the in- cations. Therefore, we decided to investigate whether the struction manual. The optical density of each well at 550 selective COX-2 inhibitor deracoxib (DER), a drug licensed nm against a reference wavelength of 650 nm was measured for veterinary use, could potentiate the inhibitory action of using a microplate reader (ELx800, Biotek Instruments, DOX, the standard chemotherapeutic drug, in a canine mam- Winooski, VT, U.S.A.). Cell viability was calculated as fol- mary tumor cell line (CMT-U27). lows: Viability (%)=(Absorbance of the treated wells)/(Ab- sorbance of the control wells) ×100. Each concentration was MATERIALS AND METHODS tested in three different experiments and run in triplicate. The dose-response curves were plotted for each drug, and Cell line and chemicals: To investigate the potential ef- the concentration of drug required for 50% inhibition of cell fects of the selective COX-2 inhibitor DER and cytotoxic viability (IC50) was determined graphically. Subsequently, anthracycline DOX against canine mammary carcinoma we tested 0.9 µM (IC50) and 0.09 µM (1/10 IC50) of DOX cells, the CMT-U27 cell line was chosen, as it has high pro- with 50, 100 and 250 µM of DER in combination to learn liferative and anti-apoptotic potential [29]. The canine mam- whether DER could enhance the antiproliferative effects of mary carcinoma cell line (CMT-U27) was kindly supplied by DOX in CMT-U27 cells. For this purpose, the cells were Prof. Eva Héllmen, Uppsala University, Sweden. This cell treated with DOX and DER for 72 hr, and the antiprolifera- line was derived from a primary tumor (infiltrating ductal tive effects of the combined agents were evaluated according carcinoma), and when inoculated in the fat mammary pad of to the MTT assay. female nude mice, it metastasized to the lymph nodes, lungs, Drug interaction analysis: The nature of the interaction liver and heart [18]. DER was a generous gift from Novar- between DOX (0.9 µM and 0.09 µM) and DER (50, 100 and tis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Basel, Switzerland). Polyclonal 250 µM) was determined by calculating the ratio index (RI), anti-Bcl-2 (sc-492), antibody, a secondary antibody kit and which was initially described by Kern et al. [24] and later 3,3′-diaminobenzidine (DAB) (sc-2018) were purchased modified by Romanelliet al. [53]. The RI is calculated as the from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.). Un- ratio of expected cell survival (Sexp, defined as the product less otherwise indicated, all reagents were purchased from of the viability observed with drug A alone and the survival Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.). observed with drug B alone) to the observed cell survival Cell culture: Cells were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified (Sobs) for the combination of A and B (RI=Sexp/Sobs). Type eagle’s medium (DMEM-F12) supplemented with 10% fetal of interaction was defined as follows: RI≥1.5, synergistic; bovine serum, 100 IUml−1 penicillin G, 100 µgml−1 strep- RI<1.5 to >0.5, additive; and RI≤0.5, antagonistic [31].
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